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XCI. SOLANACEJE (WRIGHT). 



[Solarium. 



anthers oblong or lanceolate, conniving or cohering in a cone, dehiscing 

 by pores, rarely by longitudinal slits. Ovary 2 -(rarely 3-4-)celled ; 

 st^'le simple ; stigma usually small ; ovules numerous. Berry usually 

 o-lobose sometimes oblong. Seeds compressed, orbicular or subreni- 

 form • testa often minutely pitted ; embryo much curved near the 

 margin; cotyledons semi terete. — Herbs, shrubs or small trees, some- 

 times climbing, unarmed or spiny. Leaves alternate or geminate, 

 entire lobed or pinnatisect. Cymes extra- axillary, dichotomous, race- 

 mose or umbellate, sometimes arranged in a terminal panicle. Flowers 

 yellow, white, violet or purple. 



Species about 800, most abundant within the tropics, but extending into the 

 temperate zone. 



£. eornigerum, Andre in Rev. Horfc. 1868, 33, is a native of the Shan Hills, 

 Burma, and not of Tropical Africa as was suggested in the original description. S. 

 insiqne, Lowe, has been cultivated in Mossamedes (Hiem in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. i. 



749). 



* Ineemes. — Plants without spines (except occasionally 

 in S. pandurceforme). 

 f Flowers in terminal or pseudoterminal panicles 

 (See also S. verbascifolium). 

 Filaments united . . . . . .1. S. inconstant. 



Filaments free. 



Leaves densely stellate tomentose below 

 Leaves stellately hairy on both surfaces. 

 Branches ashy-white .... 



Branches violet ..... 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so. 

 Panicle diffuse . . 



Panicle compact. 



Lowest cluster of flowers on peduncles 

 6-12 lin. long .... 



Lowest cluster of flowers s.ubsessile . 

 ff Flowers not in terminal panicles. 



$ Corolla at least 9 lin. in diam. 

 Leaves glabrous. 



Calyx-lobes linear . . . 8. S, aggregatum. 



Calyx-lobes foliaceous . . 9. S. macrocarpon. 



Leaves stellately hairy. 



Leaves entire or slightly sinuate, oblong- 

 lanceolate. 

 Leaves pubescent. 



Corolla 12 lin. in diam. . . 10. S. panduraforme. 



Corolla 9 lin. in diam. . . 11. S. psilostylum. 



Leaves scabrid . . . .12. S. bengitelense. 



Leavesslightlysinuate, ovate- lanceolate. 13. S. Volkensii. 

 Leaves distinctly sinuate, oblong. 



Flowers solitary or in pairs . . 14. S. Naumanni. 



Flowers in racemose cymes . . 15. S. Monteiroi. 



Leaves sinuate, ovate-cordate . . 16. S. Stuhlmannii. 



Leaves pinnately lobed. 



Leaves with stellate and simple hairs 



beneath 17. S. Thomsoni. 



Leaves with only stellate hairs beneath 90. S. Melongena, var. 



inerme. 



S. runsoriense. 



S. tettense. 

 S. somalense. 



S. bendirianum. 



S. bifurcum. 

 S. Welioitschii. 



